A recent article titled Clinical Decision Support Systems Gain Increased Recognition in Healthcare in North America and Europe, Observes Frost & Sullivan discusses to how the use of clinical decision support and clinical decision support systems has gained increased exposure and adoption throughout healthcare. In defining clinical decision support, as this is a broad term that could mean different things to different people, I am looking at it as a support system that aids clinicians in their decision making. This would be data that prompts clinicians on dose range checking, duplicate therapy, drug interactions, drug allergies, and even drug disease within their EMR, EHR, CPOE, etc.
It is stated in the article that the total market for clinical decision support systems is estimated to reach $364.1 million by 2016. Much of this growth, I would have to imagine, would come from the US in light of the ARRA and the dedicated dollars to healthcare. I am not entirely sure how Europe is handling this.
The article also mentions that some of the challenges are the lack of standard formats and variable accessibility of systems. The writer states "However, clinical knowledge and decision support interventions for use in clinical information systems can currently be obtained from a variety of sources whose formats are non-standard and accessibility is variable. These sources include healthcare IT vendors' shared libraries, commercial decision support content publishers and the Internet. Such non-standardized and independent approaches to create and present clinical knowledge and interventions severely limit incorporation, re-usability and interoperability in clinical information systems."
These challenges could limit the growth in the coming years and it seems that there is a need for standardization.
It is stated in the article that the total market for clinical decision support systems is estimated to reach $364.1 million by 2016. Much of this growth, I would have to imagine, would come from the US in light of the ARRA and the dedicated dollars to healthcare. I am not entirely sure how Europe is handling this.
The article also mentions that some of the challenges are the lack of standard formats and variable accessibility of systems. The writer states "However, clinical knowledge and decision support interventions for use in clinical information systems can currently be obtained from a variety of sources whose formats are non-standard and accessibility is variable. These sources include healthcare IT vendors' shared libraries, commercial decision support content publishers and the Internet. Such non-standardized and independent approaches to create and present clinical knowledge and interventions severely limit incorporation, re-usability and interoperability in clinical information systems."
These challenges could limit the growth in the coming years and it seems that there is a need for standardization.
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